RONGON MUKHOPADHYAY, J.

1. Flowering marital bliss of a bride was nipped in the bud on the date of her marriage on account of a dastardly act of murder committed by the assailant. Whether the appellant was the perpetrator of the crime or not or whether the learned trial court was justified in convicting the appellant u/s. 302 I.P.C. is the question which we seek to answer in the present appeal. The appellant has preferred this appeal against the judgment dated 19.7.2012 passed by the learned 3rd Additional Sessions Judge, Hazaribagh in connection with S.T. No. 440 of 2005 by which the appellant has been convicted for the offence u/s. 302 I.P.C. and was sentenced to R.I. for life and a line of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand).

2. The allegation made in the F.I.R. reveals that on 29.4.2005, the marriage ceremony of the daughter of the informant was to be solemnized with Awadhesh Kumar Pandey. During the course of marriage ceremony when some rituals were going on in the morning on 30.4.2005 at 3 a.m., the informant heard the sound of a gunshot. The informant rushed inside the house along with his family members and villagers and found that the appellant was fleeing away from inside